NEW YORK — A Haitian radio host who used Twitter to inform the world about the earthquake which ravaged his country was among the users of the micro-blogging…
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NEW YORK — A Haitian radio host who used Twitter to inform the world about the earthquake which ravaged his country was among the users of the micro-blogging…
By Kate Ausburn
On Tuesday January 12th, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake devastated the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The earthquake has destroyed the nations capital of Port-au-Prince…
Skeptics of twitter will spend boundless energy on discouraging its use and dismissing its value. Their argument based on the belief that the tool is used primarily as a means to promote one’s self and the mundane aspects of one’s day. However, the value of twitter as a platform truly transcends that of Facebook style status updates. Twitter offers an outlet for all people to become citizen journalists and break up-to-the-minute news. It allows us to connect with politicians and celebrities with whom we would otherwise have had no level of conversation with.
